It totally begs the question: how is that a benefit to society?
The system is designed to reward the inventor and allow them a fair chance to recoup their research and development costs by granting them an exclusive monopoly. Having a patent makes it harder for you to get ripped off as you try to manufacture/market/sell your invention. Would AMD/ATI spend millions of dollars to develop the next GPU if the instant they produced it nVidia could start making the same product, but sell it at half the price because they didn't have R&D costs to recoup?
It theoretically benefits society because it requires innovations to be disclosed in exchange for the grant of this monopoly. After the patent runs out the innovation is available to all to use. In the short term, it invites people to innovate, rather than copy. Theoretically it would also push people to actually _do_ something with their ideas, rather than let them die in a notebook somewhere.
The problem is that the system has turned to one that is used to stifle innovation, rather than to promote it. When the patent office started allowing broad concepts or obvious ideas to be patented is when things took a turn for the worst. When Amazon can sue you for allowing your customers to order things with a single click, the system is broken. When (at least from the way it sounds) it is impossible to create and market a software program of any complexity without some shell company with nothing but an armful of questionable patents attempting to shake you down, the system is broken. When companies with deep pockets can prevent useful products that would benefit society from threaten their business model from making it to market by sitting on key patents, it's a problem.
Actually, Netflix made streaming to Macs available late last year. Unfortunately, it requires you to install MS Silverlight, which is pretty irritating to many Apple aficionados.
From what I understand the costs of becoming CALEA compliant so that the government could do these wiretaps fell mostly on the telcos. They had to establish the facilities for law enforcement to use, do equipment upgrades so they had wiretap capability, and maintain the staff and other resources or pay someone else to do it for them so they could get/stay compliant. They were then told by the FCC that they couldn't levy a national surcharge to pay for these upgrades. This very well could just be their way of jabbing the government for forcing these (presumably) expensive equipment upgrades on them and hurting their bottom line, and then failing to even pay the minimal fee they were supposed to for utilizing that equipment.
Did the National Legal and Policy Center inform Google that they found these copyrighted files, or are they just choosing to complain to Congress about it instead of going through Google's pre-defined channels? It would seem like the real test here would be to see how quickly Google responds to a proper take down request, not a measurement of how many copyrighted files are on the site at any given time.
It's really kind of ironic. Verizon bought out MCI, which was one of the first long distance companies that was able to circumvent the AT&T regulated monopoly. Their microwave towers were disrupting the existing market forces in much the same way that Vonage and VoIP in general has the potential to be. Now a company that only managed to get its start by being basically "a law firm with an antenna on the roof" is essentially using their army of lawyers to keep down their potential competitors.
I'm unsure why this is big news. Apple doesn't care that much about accommodating those who aren't holding themselves to their prescribed upgrade cycle. Part of what gives them the ability to innovate is the fact that they, at some point, will cut off the legacy users. It makes it easier for them to move their products forward and offer innovative new features and products that "just work" - they're targeting a narrow set of systems, and they don't have to deal with layers upon layers of legacy cruft - and to profit off of the forced upgrades.
but don't some BMW/Hummer/Lexus and some other luxury and european vehicles already use at least 24volt?
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Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins...these guys are the godfathers of techno. Where are all the Detroit Techno fans? Check out Strings of Life and Nude Photo by Derrick May, No UFOs or Sound of Stereo by Juan Atkins. I'm not a big fan of Kevin Saunderson, but I'm just really suprised no one has mentioned him yet.
Here's what I got (My apologies if someone else posted it). They do mention you should check your preferences so you can continue to recieve advertising and information relevant to your interests, that's probably the corporate way of letting you know about these shenanigans.
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And even then, what's to prevent them from, say, paying someone to transcribing the stuff off the screen? It may very well be a bit much to copy, but if they want it bad enough, it could be done. I mean, depending on whether they made the monitor connection tamper resistant they could even use something as simple as a scanline converter and recording the stuff to video tape. I might get modded redundant for this, but if this is the heart of your business, you can't afford to let these guys have their hands on it. It's way too risky. As an above poster suggested, Turn the deal on its' head, get them to bring their software, source, docco and people to your place. Work to integrate the two and see if the execs like the end result.
I'm fairly sure you'd be able to do teh job with Proxomitron if you are using windows. The program is a proxy that applies a series of rules to pages you download and modifies them accordingly, ie, if a page has a blink tag on it, it will replace the blink tag into a bold tag. It has the ability to apply certain rules only to certain sites, and allows you to create your own rulesets. Only thing I didn't like about the program was its rather loud interface (look at the screenshots on the linked page, you'll see what I mean) but otherwise it's a pretty good prog.
Hmm. IANAL but looking at the general concesus (sp?) around here regarding the ruling says that you can't link to a site that promotes illegal activities, or speaks about illegal activities, or has software on it that can be used for illegal activities. Well, think about this. MS's site promotes windows. Windows was used to make MS's monopoly. IE's on there too. That was used in building a monopoly. And (duh) windows help has links to microsoft's site. Humm.... I guess that makes windows illegal. All the better for you linux supporters, hmm?
my comment here is a bit late, but yes, it was sarcasm on the IBM doesn't want to make intel mad and notice i said "mass market"- theres a market, but the average computer user won't be needing this for a while.
One of the reasons that there is more leeching going on with gnutella is the web interfaces that have been available for it. I mean really, how many former / current Napsterites do't have the technical know-how to get gnutella running.... and, as echoed in many other posts, how many are on dialups? it sure makes file transfer a lot slower when you have to keep up network connections to gnutella when your on a 56k.
1. this would require a lot of testing/ finessing to make chips on a mass market scale.
2. Intel supplys ibm with processors for thier desktops. IBM wouldn't want to make them mad now, would they?
3. Theres no real mass market demand for it at the moment- as the article stated, there are very few things that your "average" computer user would need that would benefit from them releasing this chip. And no, 250frames/sec in quake 3 arena doesn't count.
4. because of the lack of mass market demand and the high cost they'd incur by implementing the processing methods they'd need to make this chip it would make the chip very expensive. Very expensive chip that few people want right now= something intel won't worry about for a while.
Take the idea of dna computing and the solar powered co-loc that was an article earlier and we might just have something...think of it, a computer thats biodegradeable and powered by (almost) green energy (there's pollution created by the manufacture of the panels). Now all me need are lead-less crts....
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You're wrong. See Russia's cyberwars on Estonia (2nd story) and Georgia.
It totally begs the question: how is that a benefit to society?
The system is designed to reward the inventor and allow them a fair chance to recoup their research and development costs by granting them an exclusive monopoly. Having a patent makes it harder for you to get ripped off as you try to manufacture/market/sell your invention. Would AMD/ATI spend millions of dollars to develop the next GPU if the instant they produced it nVidia could start making the same product, but sell it at half the price because they didn't have R&D costs to recoup?
It theoretically benefits society because it requires innovations to be disclosed in exchange for the grant of this monopoly. After the patent runs out the innovation is available to all to use. In the short term, it invites people to innovate, rather than copy. Theoretically it would also push people to actually _do_ something with their ideas, rather than let them die in a notebook somewhere.
The problem is that the system has turned to one that is used to stifle innovation, rather than to promote it. When the patent office started allowing broad concepts or obvious ideas to be patented is when things took a turn for the worst. When Amazon can sue you for allowing your customers to order things with a single click, the system is broken. When (at least from the way it sounds) it is impossible to create and market a software program of any complexity without some shell company with nothing but an armful of questionable patents attempting to shake you down, the system is broken. When companies with deep pockets can prevent useful products that would benefit society from threaten their business model from making it to market by sitting on key patents, it's a problem.
Actually, Netflix made streaming to Macs available late last year. Unfortunately, it requires you to install MS Silverlight, which is pretty irritating to many Apple aficionados.
From what I understand the costs of becoming CALEA compliant so that the government could do these wiretaps fell mostly on the telcos. They had to establish the facilities for law enforcement to use, do equipment upgrades so they had wiretap capability, and maintain the staff and other resources or pay someone else to do it for them so they could get/stay compliant. They were then told by the FCC that they couldn't levy a national surcharge to pay for these upgrades. This very well could just be their way of jabbing the government for forcing these (presumably) expensive equipment upgrades on them and hurting their bottom line, and then failing to even pay the minimal fee they were supposed to for utilizing that equipment.
Did the National Legal and Policy Center inform Google that they found these copyrighted files, or are they just choosing to complain to Congress about it instead of going through Google's pre-defined channels? It would seem like the real test here would be to see how quickly Google responds to a proper take down request, not a measurement of how many copyrighted files are on the site at any given time.
It's really kind of ironic. Verizon bought out MCI, which was one of the first long distance companies that was able to circumvent the AT&T regulated monopoly. Their microwave towers were disrupting the existing market forces in much the same way that Vonage and VoIP in general has the potential to be. Now a company that only managed to get its start by being basically "a law firm with an antenna on the roof" is essentially using their army of lawyers to keep down their potential competitors.
Funny how that works.
I'm unsure why this is big news. Apple doesn't care that much about accommodating those who aren't holding themselves to their prescribed upgrade cycle. Part of what gives them the ability to innovate is the fact that they, at some point, will cut off the legacy users. It makes it easier for them to move their products forward and offer innovative new features and products that "just work" - they're targeting a narrow set of systems, and they don't have to deal with layers upon layers of legacy cruft - and to profit off of the forced upgrades.
but don't some BMW/Hummer/Lexus and some other luxury and european vehicles already use at least 24volt?
Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins...these guys are the godfathers of techno. Where are all the Detroit Techno fans?
Check out Strings of Life and Nude Photo by Derrick May, No UFOs or Sound of Stereo by Juan Atkins. I'm not a big fan of Kevin Saunderson, but I'm just really suprised no one has mentioned him yet.
Derrick May I just recently found out has an mp3.com page at http://mp3.com/derrickmay. If you end up enjoying Detroit Techno check out other people who were part of the Transmat Timespace Tour.
If you get really into it, come to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. You'll have a blast.
Again, my apologies if someone else posted this.
And even then, what's to prevent them from, say, paying someone to transcribing the stuff off the screen? It may very well be a bit much to copy, but if they want it bad enough, it could be done. I mean, depending on whether they made the monitor connection tamper resistant they could even use something as simple as a scanline converter and recording the stuff to video tape. I might get modded redundant for this, but if this is the heart of your business, you can't afford to let these guys have their hands on it. It's way too risky. As an above poster suggested, Turn the deal on its' head, get them to bring their software, source, docco and people to your place. Work to integrate the two and see if the execs like the end result.
I'm fairly sure you'd be able to do teh job with Proxomitron if you are using windows. The program is a proxy that applies a series of rules to pages you download and modifies them accordingly, ie, if a page has a blink tag on it, it will replace the blink tag into a bold tag. It has the ability to apply certain rules only to certain sites, and allows you to create your own rulesets. Only thing I didn't like about the program was its rather loud interface (look at the screenshots on the linked page, you'll see what I mean) but otherwise it's a pretty good prog.
You may want to consider a refurbished laptop, like some of the ones here. And if you're really serious about long battery life, these claim to give you up to 12-16 hours of usable battery life, with the downside being that they are external, and a bit pricey:
Electrofuel PowerPad 120-A Notebook Battery (up to 12 hour)
Electrofuel PowerPad 120-B Notebook Battery (up to 12 hour)
Electrofuel PowerPad 160-A Notebook Battery (up to 16 hour)
Electrofuel PowerPad 160-B Notebook Battery (up to 16 hour)
PS:Sorry all the links go to TigerDirect, I'm sure you can find the products on Pricewatch also. Just remembered seeing the external batteries in one of thier catalogs, is all.
These come from Webmonkey, they cover some basic commands, might be a nice starting point:
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i nd ex3a.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/u
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/html/97/02/
Hmm. IANAL but looking at the general concesus (sp?) around here regarding the ruling says that you can't link to a site that promotes illegal activities, or speaks about illegal activities, or has software on it that can be used for illegal activities. Well, think about this. MS's site promotes windows. Windows was used to make MS's monopoly. IE's on there too. That was used in building a monopoly. And (duh) windows help has links to microsoft's site. Humm.... I guess that makes windows illegal. All the better for you linux supporters, hmm?
my comment here is a bit late, but yes, it was sarcasm on the IBM doesn't want to make intel mad and notice i said "mass market"- theres a market, but the average computer user won't be needing this for a while.
One of the reasons that there is more leeching going on with gnutella is the web interfaces that have been available for it. I mean really, how many former / current Napsterites do't have the technical know-how to get gnutella running.... and, as echoed in many other posts, how many are on dialups? it sure makes file transfer a lot slower when you have to keep up network connections to gnutella when your on a 56k.
1. this would require a lot of testing/ finessing to make chips on a mass market scale.
2. Intel supplys ibm with processors for thier desktops. IBM wouldn't want to make them mad now, would they?
3. Theres no real mass market demand for it at the moment- as the article stated, there are very few things that your "average" computer user would need that would benefit from them releasing this chip. And no, 250frames/sec in quake 3 arena doesn't count.
4. because of the lack of mass market demand and the high cost they'd incur by implementing the processing methods they'd need to make this chip it would make the chip very expensive. Very expensive chip that few people want right now= something intel won't worry about for a while.
Take the idea of dna computing and the solar powered co-loc that was an article earlier and we might just have something...think of it, a computer thats biodegradeable and powered by (almost) green energy (there's pollution created by the manufacture of the panels). Now all me need are lead-less crts....